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Palm and palm kernel oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Palm and palm kernel oil is a kind of palm kernel oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,128 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does palm and palm kernel oil contain an allergen?
Palm and palm kernel oil is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is palm and palm kernel oil vegan?
Yes. Palm and palm kernel oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does palm and palm kernel oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile de palme et de palmiste” in French, “Palm- und Palmkernöl” in German and “aceite de palma y palmiste” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile de palme et de palmiste
- German
- Palm- und Palmkernöl, Palmöl und Palmkernöl
- Spanish
- aceite de palma y palmiste
- Italian
- olio di palma e di palmisto
- Dutch
- palmolie en palmkernolie
- Finnish
- palmu- ja palmuydinöljy
- Hungarian
- pálma- és pálmamagolaj, pálmaolaj és pálmamagolaj
- Croatian
- palma i ulje palminih koštica
Which foods contain palm and palm kernel oil?
Open Food Facts lists palm and palm kernel oil in the ingredients of 1,128 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, Canada and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,065 · Canada 35 · France 25 · Spain 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where palm and palm kernel oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is palm and palm kernel oil?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, palm and palm kernel oil sits under palm kernel oil and palm oil.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Palm and palm kernel oil
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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